Hi hi my lovely readers.
So happy i can spare my time to do this tutorial. It is fast and easy.
When my baby started to chew on everything and not forget put anything to his mouth, i had been wanting to make him a chewable toy. I had been eyeing pinterest many times for inspirations. Most of the tutorials mentioned it is best to make toys that have lots of textures for baby to explore. Minky fabrics came to my mind and my fur fabric. I do not have minky fabrics and they are quite expensive. But i do have seersucker fabric, sure it got textures ;)
And babies attracted to sounds. Either bells, rattles, musics and crinkle sound. I always wanted to make toys that can crinkle. I have tried many types of plastics from groceries to chips' bags, but they don't have to sound "crinkle" hehe, it is hard to describe.
Then i found the "crinkle" sound from cereal plastic bag. YAY!!!
Important Note: If you are not comfortable that your child will be chewing a plastic, even though the plastic will be sandwich inside front and back fabric, you may skip the crinkle.
Okay so texture, crinkle and what else? Taggies!!!! Where they can chew, chew and chew. I use colourful ribbons from my stash.
What you will need:
- 2 pieces of fabrics for front and back (the sizes depend on the size of your monogram. Mine about A4 size.)
- 1 piece of A4 size plain paper to draw your monogram template.
- 1 piece plastic sheet.
- Ribbons.
- Sewing essentials.
- 30 minutes spare time to finish this projects ;)
I drew my own template. Don't forget give extra 1cm for seams allowance on each sides.
The 2 fabrics i am going to use.
The front will be this super cute and bright fabric. Matthew loves yellow colour (for now).
The texture on seersucker fabric.
Ribbons!!! - Cut to your desire length then fold in half and burn the edges to prevent fraying.
How many ribbons needed is based on you.
Mine 14 pieces.
Plastic sheet
Using the monogram template you will cut 1 from:
- Front fabric.
- Back fabric.
- Plastic sheet.
Arranged all the ribbons you want to use to the right side of the fabric. Use pins to keep them in place.
At the wrong side of the fabric, i lay the plastic then pinned.
I wanted the plastic side on the top for easier sewing.
Next lay the right side of the front fabric below the back fabric. Right side both fabrics facing each other. Then sew using 1cm seams allowance. Leave 10cm opening for turning.
Clips all the corners then flip everything inside out. You can hand stitch to close the opening or top stitching. I did top stitching.
All finish. I add toy links. You can add teething toys, softies, etc.
Give it to your baby and let him enjoy playing!!!!
Happy!!!
See you in my next tutorial ;)
Let's Make Them.
